Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson set a new world 800m indoor record time of one minute 54.87 seconds in Lievin, beating the near-24-year-old standard set on the day she was born.
Hodgkinson, who stormed to 800m gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics, smashed the previous time of 1min 55.82secs achieved by Jolanda Ceplak at the European championships in Vienna on March 3, 2002.
Simply incredible 🔥 pic.twitter.com/j2TC3NbxLx
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) February 19, 2026
The 23-year-old opened her season at the UK indoor championships, running 1:56.33 without pacemakers or wavelights to move third on the all–time list, before turning her focus to Thursday night in France.